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SFF.Network AMD Ryzen announced, detailed and available for pre-order TODAY !

Ever since AMD first announced the work that would later be branded as Ryzen, the company has been strategically and masterfully orchestrating a narrative of dramatic change and disruption to the staid status quo of consumer and enthusiast-grade processors. Today, however, AMD has built up this performance into a crescendo, by revealing their top-performing Ryzen AM4 CPUs today.

Read more here.
 

MarcParis

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Now questions is simple : does a b350 tomahawk + g.skill flare-x @3200mhz 14t + r7 1700 @ 3.9ghz combo kick ass?..:)
Even i must admit i want to go for x370 Taichi..:)
 
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Soul_Est

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Now questions is simple : does a b350 tomahawk + g.skill flare-x @3200mhz 14t + r7 1700 @ 3.9ghz combo kick ass?..:)
Even i must admit i want to go for x370 Taichi..:)
That setup is definitely kickass. The X370 boards will do a better job though.
 

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But first i need to receive my precious cerberus-x after @Josh | NFC video..:)

Wait, you think you are getting it back?

 

MarcParis

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http://www.techspot.com/article/1374-amd-ryzen-with-amd-gpu/
Techspot.com (hardware unboxed on Youtube) has released an interesting article about Ryzen performance on AMD and Nvidia gpu (after controversy on Rise of the tomb raider, crippled in DX12 Ryzen+Nvidia combo)

Well, conclusion is a bit difficult as they found both case where AMD is far ahead :


where nvidia is far ahead :


But I liked THIS slide , where Ryzen is above core i7 7700K @ 4ghz...:)
 

Phuncz

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Yep, it can basically swing both ways with games that haven't been properly optimized.
 

MarcParis

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at last...at last...it seems I've finally made up my mind on which cpu, MB and RAM I'll take for my Cerberus-X setup..:D
 
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TheHig

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That's interesting. Not surprised the quality of the hardware-assisted encoding is worse, there seems to be a lot of "optimization" going on.

By the way, new Community Update (#3): https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/04/06/amd-ryzen-community-update-3

  1. Balanced power plan optimized for AMD Ryzen™ processors
  2. Even more 1080p game performance updates
  3. An important update for AMD Ryzen Master

I did install the Ryzen optimized power plan last night. It's nice to see the improvements rolling in. @Phuncz, Have you added it to your Ryzen system?
 

Phuncz

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Yep, although I'm not that concerned about power consumption with two fire-breathing Radeon R9 290X cards in the system. Luckily it's the 21st century and one of them just stays off completely while not in use.
 
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MarcParis

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Definitely AMD Ryzen is disrupting CPU market...last news : Intel is advancing X299 platform (Kabylake-X and Skylake-x) release by 2 months!!
http://www.tomshardware.fr/articles/intel-x299-lancement-kabylake-x-skylake-x,1-63554.html

That news is just making me completely confused on my cerberus-x setup as X299 has always been one of my target but its original release date of August 2017 was too far...
Now a end of June release is perfect for me as it will match customed Vega release also...:D
I must admit that CPU market is DAMN interesting this year!